History does not literally repeat itself, but sometimes it comes awfully close. Iraq is not the first dangerous dictatorship that international agreements tried to keep disarmed. Nor is it the first where that effort failed. Back in the 1930s, Germany’s military...
Editor’s note: This is a parody, similar in style to the Onion. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D- NY) took his “fairness in the military” proposal a step further this month. The congressman is now calling for what he calls “affirmative casualties”...
This weekend, the Duke and University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball teams will square-off in a nationally televised #1-vs.-#2 contest. Coincidentally, this matchup comes the same week that a Bush administration advisory panel completes its...
President Bush is very vocal about his religious beliefs; he likes to preach publicly about “the power of faith” and “the vital place of faith in the life of our nation.” This does not bother most Americans, who believe that while the President...
Webster’s dictionary defines bankruptcy as a state of financial ruin-the inability to pay one’s debts. That sure sounds like what is going on in California where Governor Gray Davis and the Democrats have saddled taxpayers with a massive 35 billion dollar...
My previous columns here have been about President Bush’s bold tax-cut proposal — how it will help the economy grow, and how some of the criticisms of it are wrong. Today’s column sets those issues aside and looks at the simple short-term impact that...
The cloning debate resumed late last December with the announcement–still unconfirmed–that a cloned baby was born to an American woman. This report essentially mocked the consensus that emerged in Congress over the past year, which agreed that reproductive...
In terms of domestic affirms, the President presented a contradictory message on health care. On the one hand, he praised the “skill and innovation” of America’s medical system. But he also said that the role of the federal government was to ensure...
Fifty percent of marriages in America today are said to end in divorce. “Joe Millionaire,” the popular “reality” TV show, provides an example as to why romance too often dies. The show is allegedly a test of “true love.” That test,...
President Bush’s critics wasted no time denouncing his latest economic plan. “An irresponsible, ineffective, ideologically driven wish list,” Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., put it. “Too steeped in conservative ideology,” The Washington...
This Monday the U.S. Justice Department crossed the line when they decided the First Amendment no longer applied where antitrust issues are concerned. According to today’s New York Times, the DOJ will announce a “consent decree” today with Village...
In an admission that they have no congressional leadership to offer, the Democrats won’t send Tom Daschle or Nancy Pelosi to deliver the Democratic rebuttal to the president’s State of the Union address. They have given that job to Washington Governor Gary...
401(k) retirement plans — those marvelous engines of empowered financial liberation, in which an employee decides how much to contribute toward his own tax-advantaged retirement account, and directs the account’s investment himself — have come under...
In this year’s State of the Union address, it was said by many that President Bush would have to clearly make the case for war with Iraq before the American people to answer the fears of a wavering public. In the President’s speech before the nation, that...
Senator Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat, announced on January 7th, 2002 that he would sponsor legislation to limit the number of radio stations a single company could own. Feingold seeks to challenge the looming relaxation of ownership rules sought by Federal...
In the January 6th, 2003 Wall Street Journal editorial it is stated: “Adding a drug benefit [to Medicare] makes sense, but only if it is added as part of reform that introduces market incentives and competition to Medicare.” Wrong. Adding a drug benefit to...
An excerpt from the Introduction of Daniel Pipe’s latest book Militant Islam Reaches America . Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in Iran in 1979 with “Death to America” as his slogan, and hundreds of Americans lost their lives to militant Islam over...
On the eve of its planned war against the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, the United States — led by President Bush — is once again hesitating. Why? Because Russia, France and Germany have declared that they won’t like us and will call us mean if we...
Alberta’s premier, Ralph Klein, recently mused out loud about implementing a voucher system for education, which lets individual parents decide which school, public or private, will receive their education dollars. Predictably, champions of public education were...
Earlier this week, on CNN’s Late Edition and CBS’s Face the Nation , Secretary of State Colin Powell proclaimed his support of the University of Michigan’s use of racial preferences to bolster minority enrollments in its undergraduate and law school...
Black Americans have a serious problem with guns. They don’t have enough of them. Despite being victimized by crime at several times the rate of whites, only 30% of black adults own guns, compared to 43% of whites.(1) Blacks are also heavily represented in...
There is a battle that is raging down in Australia that may well have ramifications throughout academia. Academic, historian and author Keith Windschuttle is conducting a courageous one-man crusade against Australia’s academic establishment–and has them...
The writing of history is one of the most enduring cultural activities of Western civilisation. It originated in ancient Greece some 2400 years ago and has continued in roughly the same form down to this day. Its first great practitioner, Thucydides, decided that to...
Angelo Marinda was a cute little baby but he never lived to see his first birthday because he was another victim of a widespread pretense of knowledge that has produced many tragedies. Twelve days after he was born last April, little Angelo was in a hospital being...
The objective of US policy must be the destruction of the nuclear capability of the North.
The language of the Second Amendment seems straightforward: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Yet the debate rages on: Does each American...
An acute disruption in vital health care services in Pennsylvania may have been prevented for now by Gov.-elect Ed Rendell’s and Gov. Mark Schweiker’s “stop-gap” economic intervention. However, the recent threats issued to all the state’s...
President Bush’s critics reacted in predictably uniform fashion to his latest economic proposal: Playing the class-warfare card. Good luck making that charge stick. America isn’t France. The politics of hate-and-envy doesn’t resonate here like it...
In chapter 4 of my book, PC Fear Factor , I provide a step-by-step process for transitioning from your old computer to a new computer. The process includes all of the steps required to migrate your data from your old machine to your new, and how to install all of your...
The headline of an Associated Press report from Tuesday declares, “Gaps Appear to Widen over Iraq within UN Security Council.” The wording is, perhaps unintentionally, precise: the gaps only appear to be widening. The report informs us — to no...
In science, you start with a hypothesis. Then you conduct an experiment to see if your hypothesis is true. If the experiment proves the hypothesis wrong, you throw it out and come up with a new hypothesis based on what you’ve learned. I guess economics must not...
Things looked so clear in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when the forces of civilization stood on one side and the barbarians on the other. The very evening after the attack, President Bush announced that “America and our friends and allies join with all those...
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